Naruto leaned in front of the toilet as he threw up his stomach acid and blood, a sign that he hadn't eaten in so long his acids were eating away at his stomach, the room smelt of blood and vinegary like acid. Naruto heard the door open.

'Shit..' He thought to himself.

Sasuke came in and also smelt the blood. He became a bit sick and his eyes narrowed into little slits. He walked up to where Naruto was.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke cocked his head to the side and acted very cool and collective though it hurt him to see his teammate in such a condition.

Naruto turned to him with an ill look.

"What do you want?" Sasuke could see that Naruto had made two new notches in his belt, which was too large for him.

"Iruka told me to check on you it have been thirty minutes..."

Naruto only stood there, only to turn around to throw up in the toilet yet again and wobbled slightly and began to fall backwards. Sasuke grabbed hold of Naruto's waist from the rear.

"You ought to go home." Sasuke said these words so caringly though he was not that aware of what he had said.

'Did I just care for Naruto?' he questioned himself.

Both of them blushed at the same time.

"Why do you care...?" Naruto questioned Sasuke his blonde bangs covered his eyes and caused a shadow over them.

"... Care about what?" Sasuke replied.

"Why do you care fore me? I am your rival remember? You and me are fighting over Sakura..." Naruto said as his eyes watered up.

"You aren't in any condition to even fight Naruto, why haven't you eaten?"

There was about 5 minutes before Sasuke noticed Naruto had fallen sound asleep in his pastel coloured, girlish arms. Sasuke picked Naruto up and carried him down to the school exit and told a nomadic student from Iruka's class to tell him Naruto and him went home.

When he finally got into Naruto's dismal excuse for a home, with the chipped plaster walls and ceiling, along with a rugged hirsute carpeted floor, he lay Naruto onto the small pity sofa which showed main signs of wear and tear over the years it had been used.

He looked for a bedspread but alas he could not find one, he didn't want his friend to get cold and get worse so he took off his shirt and used that as the blanket's substitution.

Sasuke walked up to the large sliding glass door that lead to a small balcony with rusted railing and a small plant in the corner which looked similar to a lily of the valley, a flower similar to that of a blue bell only tinted white. His black hair really made his pale white chest more noticeable and his abdomen very built.

He could notice a striking young woman walking by and another following her yelling out: "Reicheru! Wait for me!" the girl running towards the woman slipped and fell into a puddle. "Ano...?" Both the young ninja girls starred up to see a boy without a shirt gleaming down at them. Sasuke flushed when he could see down their shirts and notice their well-developed maturity. Reicheru gave him thumbs up to be funny then started to walk off with the younger girl. Sasuke starred then twitched slightly then turned back to the sleeping Naruto, he thought it was funny for a moment how he thought Naruto was more eye-catching than that of the two girls.

'What am I thinking? I shouldn't feel that way.' He turned away again to stare out the window. But he knew that he had had feelings for Naruto ever since he first met him.

He went into the kitchen and then looked for some food he could cook for his friend in need. Nothing was to be found but maybe a few pieces of rice, which were stuck to a bowl in the sink.

He went over to Naruto who sort of looked like a latent dog in his sleep though more passive this time. He knew he loved him, like Naruto loved Sakura. Sasuke grinned and knowing unerringly what he was doing got ready to give Naruto a full lip locked when suddenly the words:

"Sasuke... Don't leave me... please..." passed through Naruto's cold violet lips. Sasuke's eyes widened and started to fill up with tears yet he held them back on account it would go against his character. He grunted then left the house to go buy some food, completely forgetting his shirt.